Settings management

You can view and change current configuration parameters of components, included in Dr.Web for UNIX servers and listed on the main page. For that, open the Settings page.

On the left of the page, the menu is displayed, which contains names of all suite components allowing adjustment of their settings. To view and adjust the settings of a component, click its name on the menu. The name of the currently viewed component is highlighted in bold.

If a component has sections with advanced settings apart from the section with main settings (for example, such sections are present in the configuration of ClamAV® interface module Dr.Web ClamD and contain individual parameters for scanning clients that use a particular connection address), then an icon indicating that you can expand/collapse additional sections is displayed. If the icon is as follows , additional sections are hidden. If the icon is as follows , additional sections are displayed on the menu, one per line. To expand/collapse the list of additional sections, click the appropriate icon next to the name of the required component.

Additional sections are marked with . To view or edit parameters of an additional section, click its name on the menu.

To add a new subsection for a component, if allowed, click to the right of the component's name. In the appeared window, specify a unique name (tag) for the new subsection and click OK. To close the window without creating a subsection, click Cancel.

To delete a subsection for a component, if allowed, click to the right of the subsection's name (tag). In the appeared window, confirm that you want to delete the subsection and click OK. To close the window without deleting a section, click No.

On the top of the settings page, you can see the menu that allows to change the view mode. The following modes are available:

All — show the table with all component configuration parameters that can be viewed and adjusted.

Modified — show the table with component configuration parameters that have values different from the default ones.

Ini Editor — show a text editor with component configuration parameters that have values different from the default ones. The displayed text has the same format as the configuration file (parameter = value pairs).

You can also filter displayed parameters based on the search query. To filter unnecessary parameters out and display only those that correspond to the query, use the search box. The box is displayed on the right side of the menu and is marked with . To filter the parameter list, enter a word in the search box. All parameters that do not have the entered word in their description, will be hidden (the case of the text has no effect). To clear the search results and display the unfiltered list, click in the search box and delete the word.

Parameters can be filtered out only when they are displayed in tabular form (in All and Modified modes).

Viewing and editing component settings in tabular form

When viewing parameters in tabular form (All and Modified modes), each table row contains the parameter description (on the left) and the current value (on the right). For Boolean parameters (those that have only two available values: "Yes" and "No"), the indicator is displayed as a value (on-position means "Yes", off-position — "No").

When you select to view all parameters (not only those that were changed), the adjusted values are indicated in bold.

The complete parameter list is split into groups (such as Main, Advanced, etc.). To collapse or expand the group, click the corresponding head. When a group is collapsed and its parameters are not displayed in the table, the following icon appears on the left of the group name . When a group is expanded and the parameters are displayed in the table, the following icon appears on the left of the group name .

To adjust a parameter, click its current value in the table (for a Boolean parameter — change the indicator's position). If a parameter has a set of predefined values, they will all appear as a drop-down list after you click the current value. If a parameter has a numeric value, an edit box will appear after you click the current value. Specify a required value and press ENTER. The picture below shows examples of how to change parameter values (note that the component set in the picture can differ from the one supplied to you). All changes in parameter values are applied immediately.

Picture 2. Component settings in tabular form.

If a parameter has a string value or it has no predefined values, a pop-up window appears after click the current value. If the parameter has a list of values, they are shown in a multiline edit box (one value per line) as shown in the picture below. To edit the listed values, change, delete or add required lines in the edit box.

Picture3. Value list editing

After you adjusted a parameter value, click Save to apply the changes and close the window or click Cancel to close the window without applying or saving the changes.

Viewing and editing component settings in a text editor

When viewing parameters in Ini Editor mode, they are displayed of the configuration file format (as parameter = value pairs), where parameter is the parameter name specified directly in the component settings section of the configuration file. In this mode, only those parameters are displayed that have values different from the default ones (that is, parameters which values are indicated in bold in the All table). The picture below shows how parameters are displayed in a text editor.

Picture 4. Simple text editor

To make required changes, edit the text in a text editor according to the rules of how to edit a configuration file (edit only the section which contains settings of the component highlighted on the left). When necessary, you can specify any parameter available for the component. In this case, the default parameter values changes to the value you enter in the editor.

After you adjusted a parameter value, click Save to apply the changes or click Cancel to discard them.

If you click Save, the text is validated: the program checks whether all parameters are existent and valid. In case of an error, the appropriate message is displayed.

For details on the configuration file, its structure, and features important for specifying parameter values, refer to "Appendix D" of the Administrator Manual.